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Peter Andersson
Osby, Sweden
03/14/2020
01:00 am

Equipment Details:

TS Optics 115mm triplet Apo refractor
Celestron AVX Mount
Nikon D5300 mounted in prime focus via a 2" focal adapter
No guiding

Post-processing Details:

25 exposures at 90 sec each
20 dark frames
20 flat frames
25 bias/offset frames

Stacked in Deepskystacker
Adjusted in Photoshop to bring out detail such as stars having different colors

Image Details:

The Doublecluster is one of my favourite targets, to which I often return only to be mesmerized just as much as the first time I saw it.

It is quite an easy target for imaging as well. Wanted to try longer exposures on it for the first time, to see if I was able to bring out even fainter stars and more detail such as different colors.

It came out quite nice.

So, to everyone to be enchanted by this beautiful object, I present to you, the Double Cluster in Perseus :) Enjoy!